JPH10340110A - Program production support method and device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the program production efficiency key turning a program with which the similar actual facilities operate into a parts and produces a program by means of a GUI. SOLUTION: A mouse 16 specifies by clicking a relevant object consisting of the minimum operation object of an equipment displayed on the screen of a CRT 15. Then an MPU 10 reads a parts program concerning the method of the specified object out of a 1st disk 13 and describes (pastes) the parts program to a processing program under production to temporarily store them in a RAM 12. Finally, the MPU 10 stores the completed processing program in a 2nd magnetic disk 14.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to a program creation support method and a program creation support apparatus for a processing program of a simple control system including an actuator, a sensor and the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in the robot industry, control modeling has been advanced, and if a facility configuration and a movement are designated by a GUI (Graphical User Interface), a program creation support device for creating a program for controlling an actual machine corresponding thereto is provided. Exists.

Here, the program creation support device used in the robot industry will be described in more detail.

[0004] In a program creation support device used in the robot industry, an abstracted / generalized componentized program for only the operation performed by each component of the robot is stored in advance as a library. When the programmer clicks on a predetermined component in the robot component displayed on the screen with, for example, a mouse, a componentization program corresponding to the clicked component is read from the library, and is executed by the execution program of this component. By sequentially connecting (pasting), a program for a robot control system is created.

[0005]

However, in a control system that does not use a robot, for example, a simple control system in which an actuator, a sensor or the like is operated by a programmable controller (PLC), a finite number of states (positions) in one degree of freedom are required. ) Since it consists of a simple combination of transitions,
A model such as a robot has not been formulated, and there has been no program creation support device using a GUI as used in the robot industry as described above.

Therefore, in such a simple control system,
A program must be created individually for similar actual equipment each time, and there has been a problem that program creation efficiency is extremely poor.

Therefore, the present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems,
A program that operates similar actual equipment is made into parts and GUI
An object of the present invention is to provide a program creation support method and a program creation support device that improve program creation efficiency by creating a program by using the program.

[0008]

According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a program creation support method for assisting creation of a control system processing program for operating an actuator, a sensor or the like by a programmable controller. , Displaying an object that is the minimum operation target of the device on the screen, specifying the object displayed on the screen, and storing in advance the componentization program for the method of the specified object and the componentization program The object is read out from the storage means and sequentially described in the order of transition of the object.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect, the object has a method comprising a linear motion or a rotary motion.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a program creation supporting apparatus for assisting creation of a control system processing program for operating an actuator, a sensor, and the like by a programmable controller. A componentized program storage means for storing a componentized program describing a program for each method of the object included in the object; an object display means for displaying the object which is the minimum operation target of the device on a screen; When the object designating means designates the object displayed by the object display means, an object designating means for designating the object displayed by the display means, and the componentizing program for the method of the designated object is executed by the program. Read from Gram-storage means, so as to comprise a sequence describing program describing means the transition order of the object.

According to the present invention, a componentized program for each method of an object included in a class defined from an object that is a minimum operation target of a device is sequentially described in the order of transition of the object displayed on the screen. It is possible to execute program creation using a GUI.

[0012]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, an embodiment of a program creation support device according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of an embodiment of a program creation support device according to the present invention.

The program creation support device of this embodiment comprises an MPU 10, a ROM 11, a RAM 12, a first
Magnetic disk 13, the second magnetic disk 14, and C
An RT 15 and a mouse 16 are provided.

The MPU 10 controls this device, and
1 stores a processing program describing the processing operation of the apparatus, and the RAM 12 is used as a work area.

The ROM 11 stores a processing program for describing the processing operation of the apparatus described later.

The first magnetic disk 13 stores a component program to be described later as a library, and the second magnetic disk 14 stores a processing program being formed.

The CRT 15 displays an object to be described later, which is the minimum operation target of the device.
Reference numeral 6 is for clicking on an object displayed on the CRT 15 as a minimum operation target of the device.

Next, a processing program creation process of the program creation support device of this embodiment will be described.

Here, in order to specifically explain, a creation support process of a processing program executed by a doll picking game machine installed in a game center or the like will be described.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing the operation of the doll picking game machine.

This doll picking game machine has X-direction arms 51a, 51 provided vertically opposed in the X-direction (lateral direction).
1b, a Y-direction arm 52 vertically provided between the X-direction arms 51a and 51b, and a chuck 53 for gripping a doll on the Y-direction arm 52.
The directional arm 51a has sensors S0 and S1 at both ends thereof for detecting that the Y-direction arm 52 has reached the end, and the Y-direction arm 52 has chucks 53 at both ends.
Has sensors S3 and S4 for detecting that the terminal has arrived.

This doll picking game machine has an operation button B2
Is turned on, the Y-direction arm 52 moves in the X direction from the origin 0, and then, when the operation button B3 is turned on, the moved Y-direction arm 52 stops.

Further, in this doll picking game machine, when the operation button B1 is turned on, the chuck 53 moves in the Y direction,
Thereafter, when the operation button B3 is turned on, the chuck 53 that has been moved is stopped.

A process of creating a processing program for a doll-taking game machine that performs such an operation will be described.

First, the entity of the doll picking game as described above is modeled into a model (object model) that can be grasped by a computer.

That is, a class is considered in which the X-direction arms 51a and 51b and the Y-direction arm 52, which are the minimum operation targets of the equipment necessary for specifying the position of the chuck 53, are objects. When a class is defined, the elements included in it are called instances.

Hereinafter, the class name having the above-described object will be referred to as "Moves".

The object composed of the X-direction arms 51a and 51b and the Y-direction arm 52 included in the class Moves has the behavior, that is, the method whose forward movement (Go) and reverse movement (Go) as shown in Table 1. (Come) and movement stop (Stop).

[0030]

[Table 1]

In this example, not the position but the traveling direction is used as a parameter. Also, this class M
objects included in oves, X-direction arm 51
Assuming that the degrees of freedom of the a and 51b in the X direction are X and the degrees of freedom of the Y direction arm 52 in the Y direction are Y, for example, the forward moving method, the backward moving method, and the moving stop method in the X direction are as follows. X. G
o, X. Come and X. It is described as Stop. Y
The same applies to the direction.

As described above, the program creator models the substance of the doll picking game into a model that can be grasped by a computer.

Next, the program creator programs an execution program for the method of each object (hereinafter, referred to as a component program) and stores the program on the first magnetic disk 13 as a library.

As described above, if an execution program for each object method is stored as a library, a necessary execution program can be easily formed by instantiating the defined class thereafter.

By the way, an object included in the class Moves, a componentized program X. Go is created by a ladder program as shown in FIG.

That is, when the contact 611 of the identification label Go is turned on or the contact 612 of the contact number 0000.01 is turned on, the circuit 61 in which the contact 613 of the contact number 0000.01 is turned on, and the contact 613 of the contact number 0000.01 is turned on. ,
Also, the contact 614 of the identification label S0 and the identification label S
When the first contact 615 is OFF, the circuit 62 turns ON the contact 616 of the identification label “motor rotation”.

The object, the X-direction arm 51
a, the componentized program X. 51b for the migration stop method When the Stop is created by a ladder program, it becomes as shown in FIG.

That is, the contact 63 of the identification label Stop
When 1 is turned ON, the contact 613 of contact number 0000.01 becomes O
It is formed by a circuit 63 that becomes an FF.

Subsequently, the MPU 10 displays a picture of the doll picking game machine on the CRT 15 as shown in FIG.

Thereafter, the MPU 10 creates a processing program for the doll-taking game machine.

In other words, when the program creator clicks on each arm 51a, 51b or 52 of the doll picking game machine displayed on the CRT 15,
The componentized program indicating the operation of the clicked arm is read out from the first magnetic disk 13, and the
12 is described in a processing program in the course of formation stored in the memory 12.

As described above, the MPU 10 causes the program creator to click on each object of the doll-pickup game machine in the order in which the objects are operated. The component program is described in the processing program to complete the processing program.

After that, the MPU 10 reads the completed processing program from the RAM 12 and
To memorize.

Next, the processing program for the above-mentioned doll-pickup game machine is stored in an SFC (Sequential Functio Char
The case created in t) will be described.

In the processing program for the doll picking game machine described in the SFC, first, when initial processing and the like are described in the initial step (see FIG. 4), it is determined whether or not the button B1 is ON as a transition. In the next step, the componentization program of the forward movement method for the X-direction arms 51a and 51b is described as an action (see FIG. 4), and subsequently, the X-direction arm 51a moving in the forward direction , 51b are described (see FIG. 4).

Next, the componentization program of the forward movement method for the Y-direction arm 52 and the componentization program of the movement stop method for the Y-direction arm 52 are described as actions (see in FIG. 4). .

In this manner, the X-direction arms 51a,
When a processing program until the position of the arm 52 in the Y direction 51b, that is, the position of the chuck 53 is specified, a componentization program of a method in which the chuck 53 holds a doll is described (see FIG. 4). Then, a componentization program of a movement method for returning the positions of the arms 51a and 51b in the X direction and the arm 52 in the Y direction to the origin is sequentially described (see,, a in FIG. 4). Finally, a componentized program of the method of releasing the doll is described (see b in FIG. 4).

Here, grasp and release (b in FIG. 4)
), But as described above, a class Moves relating to the linear motion of the arm is defined, and a componentization program relating to a method of an object included in the class Moves is formed in the same manner as described above. It is assumed that a component program has been formed.

In the program creation support apparatus of this embodiment, when the object which is the minimum operation target of the device displayed on the CRT 15 screen is specified by clicking with the mouse 16, the MPU 10 A processing program can be created using a GUI in which a componentized program for a method is read from the first disk 13 and written (pasted) into the processing program being created. Can be improved.

In the doll-taking game machine described above, the methods of the object of the defined class Moves are only linear movement (forward movement, reverse movement) and movement stop. In addition to the above, the method may further include an object for rotating.

[0051]

As described above, according to the present invention, the componentized program for each method of the object included in the class defined from the object that is the minimum operation target of the device is stored in the order of transition of the object displayed on the screen. A processing program can be created by using a GUI, which is created by sequentially writing, and thus the program creation efficiency can be improved.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment of a program creation support device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic view showing an operation of the doll-taking game machine according to the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a componentization program.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing contents of creating a part-forming program of the doll-taking game machine by pasting the part-forming program.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 MPU 11 ROM 12 RAM 13 First magnetic disk 14 Second magnetic disk 15 CRT 16 Mouse

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A program creation supporting method for assisting creation of a control system processing program for operating an actuator, a sensor and the like by a programmable controller, wherein an object which is a minimum operation target of a device is displayed on a screen and displayed on the screen. Program creation support, wherein a specified object is specified, a componentized program for a method of the specified object is read from a storage means for storing the componentized program in advance, and the object is sequentially described in the transition order of the object. Method. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the object has a method consisting of a linear motion or a rotary motion. 3. A program creation supporting device for assisting in creating a control system processing program for operating an actuator, a sensor, and the like by a programmable controller, wherein the object included in a class defined from an object that is a minimum operation target of a device is provided. A componentized program storage means for storing a componentized program describing a program for each method; an object display means for displaying an object which is a minimum operation target of the device on a screen; and an object display means for displaying the object. An object designating means for designating an object, and when the object designating means designates an object displayed by the object display means, a component program for a method of the designated object is executed.
A program description means for reading out from the program storage means and sequentially writing the objects in the transition order of the object.